'Sequel to the 1989 Australian/Vogel Literary Award winner, 'Moon Indigo', which was the author's first novel. The book continues the story of Rose, whose quick-witted and sharp personality help her endure and even thrive as she copes with her mother, who is lost between lovers and cocktails, and with the desertion of her father. The author plans a third volume to complete a trilogy about Rose.' (Publication summary)
Mood Indigo
Milsons Point
:
Vintage Australia
,
1999
Z1392359
1999
selected work
novel
'From the 1989 Australian/Vogel Literary Award Winner comes an immediately engaging novel-in-stories, written in a deceptively simple style. It tells the story of Rose, three or four years old as the novel opens, a teenager as it ends.
'Rose loves the beach, her sister, her mother. Most of all, she loves her Dad, and Dad's music. But too few people want to hear him, and sometimes Rose and Wanda and Mum have to fit uncomfortably into other people's lives.
'Mandy Sayer uncovers the powerlessness of a child with an entirely steady hand. Her social observations are often bleak, yet she draws the reader into a deep and lasting involvement with all her characters, and especially with the feisty, irrestibile Rose.' (Publication summary)
